crump

Example Sentences

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Ghost doesn't flinch at the crump of a shell landing nearby.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2023

We hear the drills and the crump of the digger.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2023

Finally scrumplicate which evokes the positive "scrumptious" but probably depends more on "scrumple" to crush and the crump of violent opposition.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2014

With a crump of rending metal, the sheer bow of the 27,100-ton carrier crashed into the starboard side of the 1,630-ton destroyer-minesweeper Hobson.

From Time Magazine Archive

We sees the game in a wink—to get past the spot the next crump was due to arrive on afore it did arrive.

From Between the Lines by Cable, Boyd